[chii]

But is that not a good way to encourage people to work and produce goods/services? UBI isn't there so you can live a comfortable life off the taxpayers, but as a safety net for accidents, bad luck and other unfortunates so that they don't die. But once they're back on their feet, they should be capable of restarting their productive life and no longer need social welfare.

[p1necone]

You shouldn't be forced to obliterate your retirement savings because you fell on hard times. Welfare should never be set up in a way that incentivizes people to be financially irresponsible.

[est31]

A better way of encouraging them to work is to not retract the support as quickly as currently done when there is a job. A lot of things are free (like GEZ for example) when you live on social security, but cost money when you have a job. Thus, you might actually be worse off financially. Even if you had 30% more money, is it really worth that small number to get up every morning at 6 am? A better encouragement would be to phase out government support over a longer span of income.